TPL Data Flow

Published on , by Vincent Jacquet In Programming Tags #async#architecture

The TPL DataFlow exposes classes to manipulate data asynchronously. It is based on the Task library and on two the interfaces ISourceBlock<T> and ITargetBlock<T>.

The available classes are:

  • BufferBlock
  • WriteOnceBlock
  • ActionBlock
  • TransformBlock, TransformManyBlock
  • BroadcastBlock
  • BatchBlock
  • JoinBlock, BatchedJoinBlock

If I understand clearly the "block" semantics in a visual point of view, I am not particularly fond of it unless used with a Builder. Messaging semantics are also used sometimes, not very clearly for my own taste. I'd better read the book I bought on asynchronous programming to try and propose better naming.

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